Author: Ursula Kania
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN: 3823390686
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
This monograph offers a comprehensive account of the L1-acquisition and use of yes-no questions in English from a usage-based, construction grammar perspective. On the basis of the BNC and a high-density, longitudinal CHILDES corpus, the book explores two issues which have largely been neglected in previous research: 1. the prevalence of non-canonical questions (such as elliptical and declarative questions) in adult-to-adult as well as child(-directed) speech and the L1-acquisition of these structures. 2. The discourse-functional properties of both canonical and non-canonical yes-no questions, especially with regard to their influence on the acquisition process.
The Acquisition and Use of Yes-no Questions in English
Author: Ursula Kania
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN: 3823390686
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
This monograph offers a comprehensive account of the L1-acquisition and use of yes-no questions in English from a usage-based, construction grammar perspective. On the basis of the BNC and a high-density, longitudinal CHILDES corpus, the book explores two issues which have largely been neglected in previous research: 1. the prevalence of non-canonical questions (such as elliptical and declarative questions) in adult-to-adult as well as child(-directed) speech and the L1-acquisition of these structures. 2. The discourse-functional properties of both canonical and non-canonical yes-no questions, especially with regard to their influence on the acquisition process.
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN: 3823390686
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
This monograph offers a comprehensive account of the L1-acquisition and use of yes-no questions in English from a usage-based, construction grammar perspective. On the basis of the BNC and a high-density, longitudinal CHILDES corpus, the book explores two issues which have largely been neglected in previous research: 1. the prevalence of non-canonical questions (such as elliptical and declarative questions) in adult-to-adult as well as child(-directed) speech and the L1-acquisition of these structures. 2. The discourse-functional properties of both canonical and non-canonical yes-no questions, especially with regard to their influence on the acquisition process.
Getting to Yes
Author: Roger Fisher
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395631249
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Describes a method of negotiation that isolates problems, focuses on interests, creates new options, and uses objective criteria to help two parties reach an agreement.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395631249
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Describes a method of negotiation that isolates problems, focuses on interests, creates new options, and uses objective criteria to help two parties reach an agreement.
Yes, Si, Oui
Author: Jean Yacoub
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 9781432789718
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
From the author of the bilingual collection of poems, Soundless Guitars, Adulterous Dreams , heres a collection of unpretentious, pleasing thoughts, authored by ordinary speakers of our collective wisdom. But now enhanced and presented in English, Spanish, and French. It takes more than looking to see; more than seeing to understand; more than understanding?Ǫ to uphold the truth. Regardless of how this idea may resonate in your first language, pondering on it in any second or third YES-SI-OUI language adds to the enjoyment that we all expect from a good book. So take out a minute and do your mind a favor! Read them in the language of your choice; brush up on what you have learned, or meet your favorite new language halfway. Play with them. Say them aloud. And let your mind enjoy the game.
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 9781432789718
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
From the author of the bilingual collection of poems, Soundless Guitars, Adulterous Dreams , heres a collection of unpretentious, pleasing thoughts, authored by ordinary speakers of our collective wisdom. But now enhanced and presented in English, Spanish, and French. It takes more than looking to see; more than seeing to understand; more than understanding?Ǫ to uphold the truth. Regardless of how this idea may resonate in your first language, pondering on it in any second or third YES-SI-OUI language adds to the enjoyment that we all expect from a good book. So take out a minute and do your mind a favor! Read them in the language of your choice; brush up on what you have learned, or meet your favorite new language halfway. Play with them. Say them aloud. And let your mind enjoy the game.
English next
Author: Myriam Fischer Callus
Publisher: Hueber Verlag
ISBN: 3190729301
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Publisher: Hueber Verlag
ISBN: 3190729301
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
English, Yes!
Author: Burton Goodman
Publisher: Contemporary Books
ISBN: 9780890617939
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A literature-based reading program for students who need help improving their basic English skills. Features adaptations of outstanding short stories by contemporary and classic authors.
Publisher: Contemporary Books
ISBN: 9780890617939
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A literature-based reading program for students who need help improving their basic English skills. Features adaptations of outstanding short stories by contemporary and classic authors.
History of the English Language
Author: Carson Stewart &
Publisher: Scientific e-Resources
ISBN: 1839472987
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A History of the English Language explores the etymological and social improvement of English from the Roman victory of England to the present day to give an exhaustive review of the distinctive parts of its history. This top of the line exemplary course book has been reconsidered and refreshed and urges the reader to create both a comprehension of present-day English and an illuminated mentality toward the issues influencing the dialect today. The history and advancement of English, from the most punctual referred to works to its status today as a prevailing world dialect, is a subject of real significance to etymologists and students of history. In this book, a group of worldwide specialists cover the whole written history of the English dialect, sketching out its improvement more than fifteen centuries. With an accentuation on later periods, each key stage in the historical backdrop of the dialect is secured, with full records of institutionalization, names, the circulation of English in Britain and North America, and its worldwide spread. New authentic studies of the vital parts of the dialect are displayed, and recorded changes that have influenced English are dealt with as a proceeding with process, clarifying the state of the dialect today. This total and state-of-the-art history of English will be fundamental to every propelled understudy, researchers and instructors in this conspicuous field.
Publisher: Scientific e-Resources
ISBN: 1839472987
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A History of the English Language explores the etymological and social improvement of English from the Roman victory of England to the present day to give an exhaustive review of the distinctive parts of its history. This top of the line exemplary course book has been reconsidered and refreshed and urges the reader to create both a comprehension of present-day English and an illuminated mentality toward the issues influencing the dialect today. The history and advancement of English, from the most punctual referred to works to its status today as a prevailing world dialect, is a subject of real significance to etymologists and students of history. In this book, a group of worldwide specialists cover the whole written history of the English dialect, sketching out its improvement more than fifteen centuries. With an accentuation on later periods, each key stage in the historical backdrop of the dialect is secured, with full records of institutionalization, names, the circulation of English in Britain and North America, and its worldwide spread. New authentic studies of the vital parts of the dialect are displayed, and recorded changes that have influenced English are dealt with as a proceeding with process, clarifying the state of the dialect today. This total and state-of-the-art history of English will be fundamental to every propelled understudy, researchers and instructors in this conspicuous field.
Yes Man
Author: Danny Wallace
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416595538
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
The inspiration for the new Warner Bros. movie starring Jim Carrey, Wallace's offbeat bestseller reveals what happens when he says yes to absolutely everything for a year.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416595538
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
The inspiration for the new Warner Bros. movie starring Jim Carrey, Wallace's offbeat bestseller reveals what happens when he says yes to absolutely everything for a year.
The Syntax of Yes and No
Author: Anders Holmberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191005363
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This book is a cross-linguistic study of the syntax of yes-no questions and their answers, drawing on data from a wide range of languages with particular focus on English, Finnish, Swedish, Thai, and Chinese. There are broadly two types of answer to yes-no questions: those that employ particles such as 'yes' and 'no' (as found in English) and those that echo a part of the question, usually the finite verb, with or without negation (as found in Finnish). The latter are uncontroversially derived by ellipsis, while the former have been claimed to be clause substitutes. Anders Holmberg argues instead that even answers that employ particles are complete sentences, derived by ellipsis from full sentential expressions, and that the two types share essential syntactic properties. The book also examines the related cross-linguistic and intralinguistic variation observed in answers to negative questions such as 'does he not drink coffee?', whereby 'yes' in one language appears to correspond to 'no' in another. The book illustrates how a seemingly trivial phenomenon can have the most wide-ranging consequences for theories of language, and will be of interest not only to theoretical linguists but also to students and scholars of typological and descriptive linguistics.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191005363
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This book is a cross-linguistic study of the syntax of yes-no questions and their answers, drawing on data from a wide range of languages with particular focus on English, Finnish, Swedish, Thai, and Chinese. There are broadly two types of answer to yes-no questions: those that employ particles such as 'yes' and 'no' (as found in English) and those that echo a part of the question, usually the finite verb, with or without negation (as found in Finnish). The latter are uncontroversially derived by ellipsis, while the former have been claimed to be clause substitutes. Anders Holmberg argues instead that even answers that employ particles are complete sentences, derived by ellipsis from full sentential expressions, and that the two types share essential syntactic properties. The book also examines the related cross-linguistic and intralinguistic variation observed in answers to negative questions such as 'does he not drink coffee?', whereby 'yes' in one language appears to correspond to 'no' in another. The book illustrates how a seemingly trivial phenomenon can have the most wide-ranging consequences for theories of language, and will be of interest not only to theoretical linguists but also to students and scholars of typological and descriptive linguistics.
English Pronunciation Models
Author: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039116829
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The choice of a pronunciation model for the 21st century learner has become a major issue of debate among applied linguists concerned with teaching English. The standard pronunciation models - Received Pronunciation and General American - have recently been confronted with a new proposal of a Lingua Franca Core (LFC) or English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), put forward as a didactic priority in teaching English pronunciation to foreigners. This volume, which includes selected contributions from the Poznań Linguistic Meetings of 2003 and 2004, does not intend to present yet another model, but sets out to place the teaching and learning of English pronunciation in the context of the 21st century. As the needs of English users are clearly changing fast in the globalizing world, the question is to what extent, if at all, models of pronunciation have been able to keep up with them, and whether they in fact should do so. Thus, key issues in the integration of pronunciation into English as L2 curricula are explored.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039116829
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The choice of a pronunciation model for the 21st century learner has become a major issue of debate among applied linguists concerned with teaching English. The standard pronunciation models - Received Pronunciation and General American - have recently been confronted with a new proposal of a Lingua Franca Core (LFC) or English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), put forward as a didactic priority in teaching English pronunciation to foreigners. This volume, which includes selected contributions from the Poznań Linguistic Meetings of 2003 and 2004, does not intend to present yet another model, but sets out to place the teaching and learning of English pronunciation in the context of the 21st century. As the needs of English users are clearly changing fast in the globalizing world, the question is to what extent, if at all, models of pronunciation have been able to keep up with them, and whether they in fact should do so. Thus, key issues in the integration of pronunciation into English as L2 curricula are explored.
Conduct of George W. English, U.S. District Judge, Eastern District of Illinois
Author: United States. Congress. House. Special Committee Authorized to Inquire into the Official Conduct of George W. English
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Governmental investigations
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Mar. 23-27, 30, 31, and Apr. 1 hearings were held in St. Louis, Mo.; Mar. 28 hearing was held in East St. Louis, Ill.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Governmental investigations
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Mar. 23-27, 30, 31, and Apr. 1 hearings were held in St. Louis, Mo.; Mar. 28 hearing was held in East St. Louis, Ill.